Thrashing-machine



(No Model.)

T. J. WIDEMIRE.

V THRASHING MACHINE; No. 322,232. Patented July 14, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS J. WIDEMIRE, OF GRAMPIAN HILLS, PENNSYLVANIA.

TH RA'SHlNG-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 322,232, dated July 14, 1885. Application filed January 12, 1885. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, THOMAS J. WIDnMIRn, of Grampian Hills, in the county of Olearfield and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Thrashing Machine, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. v

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved machine forthrashing grain in such a manner that the straw will not be ruined or broken any more than itis by handthrashing; and the invention consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of parts; as hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional view of my improved thrashing-machine. Fig. 2 is a sectional plan View of the same.

The wheel A is rigidly mounted on a shaft, B, and is provided with two opposite notches or recesses, O, and on each shoulder D, formed by each recess, jaws E are formed, between which the flails F are pivoted. l-have shown only two opposite flails; but two opposite rows of flails, F, may be arranged on the wheel.

The shaft 13 is provided with a belt-pulley,

G, around which a belt passes, operated by steam or horse power.

In front of the wheel A a table, H, is arranged to slide transversely to the plane of the wheel on suitable tracks,and'which table can be moved by hand or gearing.

The rye, 850., to be thrashed is placed upon the table H, and is beaten by the flails F,whieh strike it and then slide off, are carried around" by the wheel, then again strike, and so on. The grain is thrashed and the straw is not broken or entangled.

The table H is provided with guide-bars h on its under surface, which work in ways in the frame, and is moved in a line parallel with the axis of the wheel A,as shown by the doubleheaded arrow a, Fig. 2, during the thrashing, by any suitable means, so that all the heads of grain are struck.

The shaft Bis journaled in a suitable frame, and the wheel is preferably surrounded by a box, to protect the laborers or attendants from being struck by the flails.

Rye straw is an important article of commerce, but is only of value when not broken or entangled, as it is in thrashing-machines. To avoid this it has been customary heretofore to thrash it by hand by means of flails, which is very laborious and expensive.

Having thus described myinvention, whatl claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

1. In a thrashing-machine, the combination, with the wheel A, having the recesses O,

shoulders D, and lugs E, of the flails F, having heads f pivoted between the said lugs, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. In a thrashing-machine, the wheel A. having the recesses O, the shoulders D, and lugs E, and the flails F, having heads f pivoted between the said lugs, in combination with the transversely-moving table H in front of the wheel, substantially as herein shown and described.

V THOMAS J. WIDEMIRE. Witnesses:

A. O. MOORE,

G. P. DOUGHMAN. 

